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Remains of the Year, Media and Journalism Edition
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1. When truthiness becomes more important than truth and excludes or slants information because of how the mainstream media uses those editors they have that blogs don’t.
2. Anyone want a master’s degree in media psychology and social change? I was born too soon.
3. The Wire, an HBO show about newspapers, has been around for five seasons and is in its final year? Oops.
4. Deans of eight journalism schools, “are asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require television and radio stations to provide local news reporting.” Hmm – very curious. Juxtapose with the rise of hyperlocal blogs like Word of Mouth, Glass City Jungle, Callahan’s Cleveland Diary, Brewed Fresh Daily or even Eric Mansfield’s Have I Got News For You. Hmmm indeed. Here’s the op-ed they wrote.
5. Women in Media & News appeal for assistance
6. Top 10 Newspaper Industry stories of the year from Editor & Publisher
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:43 pm December 25th, 2007 in Media, Remains of the Day, Writing | 2 Comments
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Photo and quote from the New York Times article, “A Master of Motion Learns Lessons of Inspired Immobility”:
“My body is still in really good shape,” Mr. Baryshnikov said. “It would be wrong not to dance.”
For Christmas, in The Nutcracker, with, of course, Gelsey Kirkland:
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:30 pm December 25th, 2007 in Culture, Quotes | Comments Off
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Conservative Liberty Counsel spreads false rumors via Internet, OK AG predicts lumps of coal from Santa
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Posting without further comment:
Dozens of calls poured into [Oklahoma AG Drew] Edmondson’s office Thursday after callers had read an “alert” from the group, Liberty Counsel, that said a Southwestern Oklahoma State University administrator issued the directive to employees after receiving legal advice from Edmondson’s office.
“Some of the callers were quite upset,” Edmondson said later. “The idea that a state official would ban Christmas just days before such a holy day obviously struck a chord with a number of people.”
The Orlando-based group issued two “alerts” on its Web site, saying an order about not using Christmas in written or oral form stemmed from counsel given by Edmondson.
But Edmondson said he never provided any such advise to Southwestern Oklahoma officials and does not advise the school about anything.
[snip]
Employees [at the school] were asked to keep public areas of the campus free of religious decor because not all students celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, [Director of public relations for the school, Brian] Adler said.
But faculty and staff members also can decorate their offices however they want, he said.
[snip]
Attempts to reach Liberty Counsel officials weren’t successful on Thursday.
Edmondson had a message for the group.
“The folks at Liberty Counsel will find lumps of coal in their stockings on Christmas morning,” he said. “That’s what Santa leaves for bad kids who tell lies.”
Liberty Counsel takes no responsibility for creating the controversy.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:39 am December 25th, 2007 in Blogging, Culture, Media, Politics, Religion, Social Issues, Tech | Comments Off
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“If parents needed vitamins, they’d be coffee flavored!”
My youngest son, as he contemplated the flavor choices included in the gummy vitamin array I’d placed near his breakfast.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:24 am December 25th, 2007 in Culture, Parenting, Quotes | Comments Off
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Dem prez candidates try impossible: spend less on political consultants
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One reason why the show is called, Your Billion Dollar President and not Your Multi-million Dollar President:
Questions about how the Kerry campaign could have become such a bonanza for one small group of advisers — and whether the fees squandered money that could have been used for courting voters — are still reverberating inside Democratic circles as the 2008 campaign moves into high gear. And with more money than ever on the line this time around, resentment has been building, donors and other operatives say, at how, win or lose, presidential elections have become gold mines for the small and often swaggering band of media consultants who dominate modern campaigns.
As a result, the Democratic presidential hopefuls are seeking to impose more controls on the consultants. In doing so, they are moving more into line with their Republican counterparts, who by and large have kept tighter rein on how they handle their media teams, which shape the candidates’ messages, produce their television ads and buy the air time.
The three leading Democrats — Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama and former Senator John Edwards — are all clamping down. They are following what has become an almost standard practice among Republican presidential nominees by paying their media advisers flat fees, or placing a cap on their payments, rather than making payments based on a percentage of the amount they pay television stations to broadcast their commercials.
Even with the changes, media consultants in both parties will continue to be paid handsomely for their work in the 2008 campaign, and their business continues to be one of the largest and most lucrative in politics.
That’s an excerpt from today’s New York Times article, “Democrats Try to Rein in Fees on Consulting.”
Lots of discussion and analysis about who gets how much through which payment arrangements, holding which titles for which campaigns.
In the end, however:
But the bigger change may come as the Web redefines the entire media world. John Brabender, a Republican consultant who is working for Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential campaign, said that 5 percent to 10 percent of advertising expenses were already going to the Web. And Mr. [Joe] Trippi, who helped pioneer the use of online fund-raising during Mr. [Howard] Dean’s campaign, said the Edwards campaign had produced attack videos for the Web for as little as $800, a tiny fraction of what it costs to create and broadcast a television commercial.
“A new generation of people who got into politics in 2004 can see the big changes with the Internet,” Mr. Trippi said, “and many of them have now moved up to field director and are a cycle or two away from running campaigns. And the way the Net is going, by the time they get there, the old commission structure will be dead, and everyone will have flat fees.”
Bottom line: it’s costing more and more money to wag us dogs. I wish we could make it impossible.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:17 am December 25th, 2007 in Blogging, Campaigning, Elections, Media, Politics, Tech, WH2008 | 1 Comment
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Beatblogging.org: uses social media, like blogs, as regular old sources, and then some
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I know I just wrote this post in which I wonder why the mainstream media can’t view blogs as sources like any other person or entity, but instead, has to warn off the public from reading, relying on or otherwise regarding blogs with any respect whatsoever.
But as I was thinking about this point, I remembered – hey! There are journalists in the mainstream media who are actively engaged in using social media-related sources as a source like any other source. They work at Beatblogging.org and include papers such as the Seattle Times, the Cincinnati Enquirer and the San Jose Mercury News. Obviously, a commitment by a traditional newspaper to collaborate with social media folks at the level of Beatblogging.org requires that the paper have respect for social media purveyors, which, as we know, not all papers do.
Now, if this model could be grafted onto and into the process used when political rumors are involved, we could stop the nonsense about how blogs are the bain of a politician’s existence and just serve the reader by figuring out what’s going on. End of story. Rather than waste time vilifying the messenger (unless that is in fact necessary as part of the story).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:50 am December 25th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Ohio, Politics, Tech, Wide Open, Writing | Comments Off
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What the Plain Dealer left out when pointing finger at blogs
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You know, some people still haven’t learned. This article, “Blogosphere could spawn a tempest this primary season,” was published in the Plain Dealer a few days ago. It’s by a Newhouse News writer. I wrote about it here on Friday.
Today, it showed up in another Newhouse paper, The Times-Picayune. And look what the PD left out* – the analysis of why the power of rumor has existed long before blogs, and if blogs weren’t in the equation, rumors would only stay quiet longer – they wouldn’t cease to exist or exist as dangers: Read more
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:57 am December 25th, 2007 in Campaigning, Elections, Media, Ohio, Politics, Wide Open, Writing | Comments Off
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